"Named after NP" vs. "named for NP"

[Lynne Murphy]

I've done a blog post on named for/after:

<http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/02/named-afterfor-and-miscellaneous-verbs.html>

None of the commenters said that they felt a difference between named
for/after (except for dialect), and that's the type of thing they usually
comment upon.

Lynne

--On den 6 juni 2010 11:52 -0700 David Wake <dnwake at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> British English allows only "named after".
>
> David
>
> On Jun 6, 2010, at 10:22, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Forme, thosse these two phrases are noticeably distinct by virtue of
>> the PREP used, for me, they have exactly the same meaning.
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>> Do others feel a distinction between the two?
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>> -Wilson
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Dr M Lynne Murphy
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Arts B357
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

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